Salem.

Today has been mostly dry and windy with brief spells (literally a couple of minutes) of rain.

Today's walk began in the hamlet of Salem near penrhyn Coch, (contrary to what Wiki says there are at least 2 villages called Salem in Wales and of course countless chapels also called Salem).

 

We began our walk by visiting the derelict Salem chapel (photos tomorrow) before following footpaths down the side of the valley to the Afon Stewi which we crossed before meandering along the other side of the valley and back round to Salem. With of course a lunch stop where we sprawled in a glade surrounded by gorse and other flowers.

Coming down into the valley we passed a well maintained farm? house which had a number of buildings around it. The building above looked to have originally been a barn possibly later converted to a dwelling.

They had kept some of the buildings as ruins and created a garden around them.

Back across the very small river and up through fields of sheep. The lambs are at the age where they are playing together in small groups. Such fun to watch.

We had a steep haul up the side of the valley before failing to find the final footpath which would have brought us back through the fields to Salem.

Instead we followed the road along the ridge and then downwards where we met two gorgeous Valais blacknose sheep. They were very friendly and I was too busy feeding this one gorse flowers to take more pictures which is a shame. It had the softest face and incredibly white teeth.

On the way home a rather scruffy looking fox ran across the road ahead of me.

The sun was shining when I got home so I sat outside with a cup of coffee planning my next moves in the garden.